Spike - Kick-ass vampire seen on the occult action
adventure BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER/WB/UPN/1997-2003 and ANGEL/WB/1999-2004.

Spike

Spike
transformed

Spike, a.k.a. William the Bloody is a sadistic British vampire with
bleach blonde hair and a scar on his eyebrow. Initially, Spike was a quiet
unassuming poet living in 1880s London who loved a girl named Cecily.

When she told him “You're nothing to me, William. You’re beneath me,” he fled
into the night where he met a vampire named
Drusilla who turned him into a
vampire. William earned the nickname Spike because he likes to torture his
victims with railroad spikes.

Spike has ravaged mankind and killed two Slayers sent to kill him. The first
one in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and the second Slayer [a black
female] in 1977 New York City on the subway. His most current target is a Slayer
named
Buffy Anne Summers but so
far he hasn't had any luck killing her; she however has knocked the crap out of
him.

Spike's bloody rampage has been temporarily halted by a group of occult
research scientists called the Initiative, who implanted a chip in his head that
will not allow Spike to kill or hurt humans [but demons are fair game].

The love of Spike's life was Drusilla, a fellow vampire who likes to gouge
her victim's eye out. Drusilla dumped Spike twice: first for a Chaos Demon; and
the second time for a Fungus Demon. Then there was Harmony but she got turned
into a vampire and left Spike because he didn’t treat her right.

Spike and Buffy Get Down

Later, Spike had a crush on Buffy and when he couldn’t get her to love him he
forced a robotics designer to build a replica of Buffy to fill the void in his
love life.

Luckily for Spike, Buffy died but was returned to life via a resurrection
spell. She returned to the real world with a hankering for some vampire booty,
namely Spike. For a time, the "Big
Bad" (Spike) and Buffy were hot and heavy
lovers.

After an apocryphal battle with a horde of Uber demons, the town of
Sunnydale was destroyed. Spike assisted in the destruction and eventually came back as
ghost who haunted
Angelus/Angel, who had
turned private detective in Los Angeles. The last we saw of either of them was
as they entered into a battle with an army of demons sent courtesy of Wolfram
and Hart.

'Cause every
time you look at me... you see all the dirty little things I've done, all
the lives I've taken... because of you! Drusilla sired me... but you...
you made me a monster.

Angel:

I didn't make
you, Spike. I just opened up the door... and let the real you out.

(Spike picks up
the cross and knocks Angel across the room.)

Spike:

You never knew
the real me. Too busy trying to see your own reflection... praying there
was someone as disgusting as you in the world, so you could stand to live
with yourself. Take a long look, hero. I'm nothing like you!

Guess that means
she was thinking about you... all those times I was puttin' it to her.

Angel:

All right...
(morphs into vampire face) let's finish this. (Spike, too, morphs into
vampire face and the two charge each other.)

-- from Episode "Destiny"
Season Five

TRIVIA NOTE: Spike may has chosen his name and
modus operandi because the night he left Cecily’s party a man read one of his
poems to a crowd of high brow Victorians. One woman commented “I’d rather have a
railroad spike driven into my head than listen to his poetry.”